Invested in this in Brussels airport, and it was worth it - good background essays, very good restaurant recommendations, a sensible approach to navigating around the sights. My one complaint is that the maps are not tied to the text awfully well, and actually allowed us to go seriously astray when we looked for the catacombs along the Appian Way.

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The following doesn't relate to Rome or books. :)I wanted to add it onto some comment thread starting with a mention of your Russian-learning exercise, but, hell, you write so much I've zero chance of finding it in the archive any time this century.

So anyhow, BBC radio has now ceased to be my provider of easy-access foreign language radio streaming since this evening when I found this: